Jacek Kaspszyk

Jacek Kaspszyk (born August 10, 1952 in Biała Podlaska , Poland ) is a Polish conductor . Since the 2013/14 season he has been music and artistic director of the Warsaw Philharmonic .

career

Jacek Kaspszyk studied conducting, music theory and composition with Stanisław Wisłocki at the Higher State Music School and graduated in 1975. In 1976 he was appointed first guest conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf for two seasons . In the following year he won 3rd prize at the renowned International Conducting Competition of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Berlin . In 1978 he was appointed Music Director and Chief Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio ( Narodowa Orkiestra Symfoniczna Polskiego Radia , NOSPR) and its Music Director two years later.

In 1992 Jacek Kaspszyk became the first guest conductor of the English Sinfonia . In 1998 he was appointed artistic director of the Polish National Opera at Teatr Wielki and two years later its managing director.

In 2006 he became artistic director of the Witold Lutosławski Philharmonic in Wrocław , and in 2009 he was reappointed music director of the NOSPR. On September 1, 2013, Jacek Kaspszyk was appointed Music and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic - the national orchestra of Poland.

Since January 2015 he has also been music director and chief conductor of the Beethoven Academy Orchestra in Krakow .

Concerts and conducting

Kaspszyk made his debut in 1975 at the Opera Narodowa (National Opera ) at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw with a premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni . In 1978 he made his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra .

In 1982 he moved to London , where he made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra . He subsequently conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, the Wren Orchestra of Capital Radio (as chief conductor), the Royal Scottish National Orchestra , the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with his debut BBC Henry Wood promenade Concerts ( Proms ) in 1984. Since then, he has many international orchestras as the Bavarian radio Symphony Orchestra , the Berlin radio Symphony Orchestra , the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, the Orchester National de France , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra , the Stockholm Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra , the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic conducted and toured with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe by Australia . Between 1991 and 1995 he was chief conductor and music advisor of the Noord Nederlands Orkest . During this time he has also worked in the USA ( Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra , San Diego Symphony ), in Canada ( Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra , Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra ), Japan ( Yomiuri-Nippon Symphony Orchestra , Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra ), in Hong Kong ( Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra ) and New Zealand ( New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ) conducts.

In 1993, his interpretation of Mahler's 8th Symphony (“Symphony of a Thousand”), played with the Athens Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Chorus , received great acclaim.

The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow (2001), the Sadler's Wells Theater in London (2004), the Hong Kong Arts Festival (2005) and the Castell de Peralada Festival in Spain (2006) were other stops. The successful tours in Japan (2001, 2003, 2005) led the British monthly Opera Now 2004 to the statement that the Teatr Wielki , the Polish national opera , had closed the gap between Berlin and Moscow on the map of Europe. Kaspszyk has made repeated guest appearances with the China Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing as well as with the Shanghai and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra . He appears regularly at the big summer festivals such as La Roque-d'Anthéron , Chopin and his Europe , the Kissinger Sommer and the Lugano Festival (of which a CD is released every year as part of the Progetto Martha Argerich EMI , now Warner Classics) and has In 2016 conducted the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Prague Spring Festival .

In 2013 he opened his office as the new music and artistic director of the National Opera with the Warsaw Philharmonic and works of Chopin at the closing concert of the European Festival , which was followed by a historic concert at the Warsaw Autumn on September 22nd with pianist Krystian Zimerman ( Lutosławski's Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 3). Jacek Kaspszyk also gave the first three concerts in the history of the Philharmonie, which were broadcast over the Internet.

In 2015 Kaspszyk conducted the Warsaw Philharmonic with Chopin's 1st and 2nd piano concerto at the 17th International Chopin Competition .

In 2016, he toured with the Warsaw Philharmonic to Germany and Great Britain as well as China, Taiwan and Japan. He also conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra . In April 2016 he returned to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted a program of Szymanowski and Schönberg's arrangement of Brahms' String Quartet op.25. He was invited to return to Liverpool in October 2017. In October / November 2016 he went on a 14-day tour to the USA with concerts and concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic and the winner of the 17th International Chopin Competition 2015, Seong-Jin Cho . a. in New York's Alice Tully Hall ( Lincoln Center ) and the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. This is followed by guest conducting with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and his debut with the Symphony Orchestra of India . In April 2017 he will return to China to conduct the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shanghai and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestras , among others. a. with works by Karol Szymanowski and Witold Lutosławski .

Operas

Kaspszyk's operatic career includes the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and the Opéra-Comique in Paris (with Mozart's Magic Flute ), the Opéra de Lyon (with Britten's Midsummer Night 's Dream and Weill's Seven Deadly Sins ), the Opéra de Bordeaux (with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin ), the Stockholm Opera and the English National Opera (with Rossini's Barbier von Sevilla ), the Opera North Leeds (with Wagner's Fliegendem Holländer ), the Scottish Opera (with Johann Strauss' Fledermaus ), the Detroit Opera and the Zurich Opera House (with Moniuszkos Haunted Castle ), the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (with Penderecki's Ubu Rex ) and the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville . He also conducted Turandot and Tosca at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (today: Viareggio).

Between 2006 and 2008 he worked regularly with the Lithuanian National Theater for Opera and Ballet in Vilnius , whose productions of Richard Strauss ' Salome and Richard Wagner's Die Walküre he also at festivals in Ljubljana and Ravenna (2007) and with a guest performance at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv-Jaffa (2008) conducted. In the 2016/2017 season, he directed Szymanowski's König Roger in a celebrated new production at the State Theater in Nuremberg .

Discography

Jacek Kaspszyk's extensive discography includes his award-winning recording of Rossini's Il signor Bruschino with the Polish chamber opera, the Edison Prize- winning recording of Tadeusz Baird's Concerto Lugubre and several highly acclaimed CDs for Collins Classics with all four London orchestras: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition , Mahler's 1st Symphony , Richard Strauss ' Also sprach Zarathustra , Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony , overtures to Verdi's operas ( Philharmonia Orchestra ), Johann Strauss' compositions and Schubert's symphonies ( London Philharmonic Orchestra ) as well as the Prelude for Orchestra by Giacomo Puccini ( Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ), whereby the Gramophone critic compared the recording with works by Johann Strauss with the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Carlos Kleiber's statement: "You can't get higher praise than that." For his recording of Lutosławski's Symphonies No. 2 and No. 4 with the Wroclaw Witold Lutosławski Philharmonic he received d en Fryderyk Prize of the Polish Music Industry, while his recording with the Polish National Opera of Moniuszko's Das Gespensterschloss ( Straszny Dwór ) received a platinum CD for EMI and that of Szymanowski's King Roger was nominated for CD Accord 2006 by BBC Music Magazine as recording of the year and was highly praised by gramophones .

Awards

In 2011 he received the Elgar Society Medal for his interpretations of Edward Elgar's music, joining outstanding colleagues such as Vladimir Ashkenazy , Andrew Litton and Leonard Slatkin .

On April 21, 2015 he received the Diamond Baton at a gala in the National Opera on the 90th anniversary of the Polish radio . The reasoning stated "as a tribute to the performance as a conductor and as a thank you for the implementation of an impressive number of studio recordings and concerts on public radio".

Private

Jacek Kaspszyk is married to the Polish actress Christine Paul-Podlasky .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Małgorzata Kosińska: Jacek Kaspszyk. In: Polish Musical Information Center of the Polish Composers Association. November 2009 (archived on Culture.pl).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Jacek Kaspszyk on the Warsaw Philharmonic website .
3. ^ ^{A b c} Jacek Kaspszyk in International Classical Artists.
4. ^ The 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition: the Prize-Winners' Concert. In: Medici TV. October 21, 2015.
5. ↑ Jacek Kaspszyk from Poland makes his debut as a conductor of the symphony orchestra. In: Website of Tenerife . May 13, 2016.
6. ↑ 2016 US Tour. Critical Acclaim. In: Columbia Artist Management Inc. website (quotes from various US newspapers and platforms).
7. ↑ King Roger - Król Roger, Jacek Kaspszyk. Musical direction ( memento from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Website of the State Theater Nuremberg .
8. ↑ Jacek Kaspszyk. Discography. In: Allmusic .
9. ↑ Obchody 90 lat Polskiego Radia. In: Polish radio website (Polish).
10. ↑ Jacek Kaspszyk on the Rate Your Music website .